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To: mandaladon

a tax on money transfers wired out of the country by noncitizens would build a nice wall


17 posted on 02/25/2018 7:03:30 AM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: silverleaf
"a tax on money transfers wired out of the country by noncitizens would build a nice wall"

It doesn't need to be much. Just a small "user fee" on remittances. Less than FEDEX would charge to deliver to Mexico.

"Mexicans sent home $26.1 billion from January to November 2017, according to figures released Tuesday by the central bank of Mexico." California charges a 7.25% sales tax. 7.25% x $26.1 billion is $1.9575 billion. Over 20 years that's nearly $40 billion, and that's if there is no growth.

(Department of Homeland Security said the wall could cost about $21.6 billion, not including maintenance. There are other figures from the left, apparently pulled out of their collective ***. Trump is a builder and if anyone can do this at a reasonable cost, he can.)

28 posted on 02/25/2018 7:45:24 AM PST by Sooth2222 (O'Rourke's Circumcision Precept: You can take 10 percent off the top of anything.)
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